Dancers from El-Funoun will be touring the United States in August 2025 to carry out a series of dabke workshops for beginners and advanced dancers. These gatherings promise to provide an inspiring opportunity for participants to learn more about Palestinian dabke, develop dabke skills, and make connections with community members. Further, they will support the work of a vital Palestinian cultural institution to remain steadfast in the face of overwhelming attempts by Israel to silence, suppress and erase Palestinian society and culture.
More about learning Dabke with El-Funoun
Interested in learning traditional Palestinian dabke. Join dancer / trainer from the premiere dance troupe in Palestine. Watch demonstrations of El-Funoun's dabke style and dance school of thought and learn the basic steps to traditional Palestinian dances. The interactive training workshop will provide participants the opportunity to explore
- the role of dabke in shaping Palestinian identity and culture.
- dance steps and sequences that comprise traditional Palestinian dabke Tayara.
- improvisation of the laweeh, the principle dancer who leads the dabke circle.
